Drupal 8 is out!

Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 05:00

Today OpenConcept joins with the Drupal Association and a worldwide community of developers, businesses, and organizations in celebrating the general availability of Drupal 8, the new version of the world’s most widely adopted, enterprise open-source digital experience platform. Introducing hundreds of new breakthrough capabilities, Drupal 8 makes digital experiences extraordinary across all channels of customer interaction to deliver transformative business results.

In a fast-changing, mobile-first era, organizations need to innovate at the speed of customer demand. New channels and new devices compound the complexity faced by builders of digital experiences. Drupal 8 establishes the new standard for digital experience delivery with an object-oriented, API-based architecture that will enable organizations to deliver content to the right person at the right time on the right device today.

Most importantly, and thanks to countless contributions to Drupal Core, Drupal 8 is the most accessible Content Management system. You can listen to Mike Gifford, Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer, talking about accessibility improvements to Drupal 8 and why it is great in this #celebr8d8 video, and read his blog posts on accessibility in Drupal 8.

Quick Facts

Drupal 8 brings many new capabilities for a new era of personalized, multi-channel digital experiences. Among these are:

Mobile-first: Allows content authors to publish content on any device. The entire Drupal 8 user interface has been made responsive (front end & back-end).